All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion.

Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.